Brunette by Law

Carina Anabella Thorn is the judge’s daughter in a world where magic and modern technologies coexist, and where Order and Chaos reign, separated by the Great Shield. It is the judges who protect the world from creations of Chaos—and at the same time they handle ordinary court proceedings.

The girl studies at the Academy of Magical Law. After three years of training, she expects to be assigned to the elite Judges’ faculty so she can follow in her father’s footsteps. But instead, by the inexplicable whim of the Chief Assignment Crystal, she ends up in the Defense faculty. Not the most prestigious one: only representatives of pampered “golden youth” with a weak magical reserve study there—the ones who prefer memorization to parties and entertainment.

At first, Cara is devastated. Her boyfriend gets engaged to her best friend, and her friends turn away from the future defender with contempt. But soon the girl decides to prove to everyone what she’s capable of and throws herself into her studies. And then she gets pulled into a dangerous investigation…

Will Cara manage to prove to everyone—and to herself—what she is truly capable of?